Princeton University, Oversize Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 551Hq
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS29617
- Shelfmark:
- Oversize Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 551Hq
- Title:
- Qurʻat al-khulafāʾ al-ʻAbbāsīyah umarāʾ al-muʾminīn / قرعة الخلفاء العباسية امراء المؤمنين
- Date:
- between 17--? and 1835].
- Language:
- ara
- Material:
- paper, ill. ; 294 x 210 (250 x 176) mm. bound to 294 x 210 mm
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 38 leaves : paper, ill. ; 294 x 210 (250 x 176) mm. bound to 294 x 210 mm.
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title from title page.
21 lines per page in two or four columns. Written in medium large naskh in black and red ink, with color (mainly red and blue) for the astronomical and magical circles. Frame made of two lines in red ink troughout. Fol. 36b probably written by another hand. Glazed European paper with watermark (see fol. 12-13). Several ownership statements on fol. 1a (the earliest dated reading 1250 H...
Contains 24 pages of "circles" (dāʻirah), starting with the "Dawāʾir al-suʾāl li-ikhrāj al-ḍamīr wa-al-ḥarf" and the "Dāʾirah li-jamʻ al-ḥurūf wa-maʻrifat al-manāzil", and ending with the "Dāʾirat al-mudun", followed by rhapsodomantic poems attributed to various authors.
There is no colophon in the manuscript.
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900, from the books of Amīn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina). - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9947060423506421
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/9d374b51-61ab-4e84-9ea7-b6afa81d0ca2/manifest
- Holding Institution:
